Macutte Mong

Muckeydemengo (died 24 February 1779), also known as Macutte Mong, was an Ottawa war chief during the American Revolutionary War. He led a war party in support of the British, and his party was captured by George Rogers Clark's American soldiers during the Illinois campaign. The captured natives were lined up in front of Fort Sackville and executed by tomahawk while in the view of the fort's commander, George Hamilton, and Mong was the last to be executed. After killing five other natives, the executioner struck Macutte Mong's skull with the tomahawk, but Mong yanked the hatchet from his skull and offered it to the astonished executioner. A second blow also failed to kill Macutte Mong, as did a third; he was ultimately dragged to the Wabash with a rope around his neck and thrown into the surging brown waters, killing him.